November YEN PLUS! The Search is on!

Posted November 14, 2011 by yenpress

Can we all utter a collective “Awwwww” over this month’s YEN cover? Milkyway looks so warm and comfy~ The only thing missing from this picture is her laptop so she can read the latest chapters of her favorite YEN PLUS series! You’d better get cozy in front of your monitors this month, because the November issue is packed with so much action and awesome! After Alexia and Lord Akeldama’s evening was so rudely interrupted in the last chapter of Soulless, they meet the masterminds behind the supernatural disappearances in London…and must take care lest they are made to “disappear” themselves! Max Ride and the Flock are facing their own brand of evil mastermind as the traitor among them is revealed and exposes the truth! Meanwhile, Witsy and Whit, witch and wizard extraordinaire, are trying to escape their local sinister institution, and Daniel X has his hands full with a particularly distasteful alien vampire! Not to mention THREE chapters of Soul Eater NOT! as we draw nearer to simultaneous serialization beginning in 2012!

And if that weren’t enough, this month we are also launching our second annual New Talent Search! As before, we are giving our loyal subscribers an early look at the details, so make sure you check out page 14 for more info! To the rest, you’ll have to wait just a bit longer~

Thank you so much for reading! As always, we appreciate your thoughts below!

Also, I was wondering if you plan to release the Anthology arc, Kataribanashi-hen, the Dice-Killing arc, Saikoroshi-hen and the Heart-Healing arc, Kokoroiyashi-hen as well? It’d be great if you did since it’d really complete the Higurashi series!

It really depends on the deadline, though. I’m getting a vacation soon, with nothing but free time. I learned a lot over this past year, and I figured I really have nothing to lose but this chance. Second chances don’t always come by so easily. Even when you don’t make it, you still get a lot of practice and experience just by trying. When you don’t think you may be good enough to enter, you’re just screwing yourself.

@Sorrano Yeah, you and i are on the same page. I didn’t make in time for the last one but i am glad i didn’t. now it’s been a year and i finally know the things i did wrong (figure drawing was awsome) and now i won’t have to repeat them again. I’ve been debating on what story i would want to send in to them i finaly know what. I just need to manage my time wisely and get everything i need.

I’m still thinking about entering the contest…
But here is a question (actually there are 2 of them): why is the timespan between two Haruhi Suzumiya Novels so large? I’m sure that, once I understand, I’ll be able to have greater patience (don’t get me wrong, I love your versions with the original art and such). Is it possible that the releases of the Haruhi novels would be sped up (simply yes or no would give me all the information I want)? I’m not english, and by all means, I don’t want to sound impolite to my favorite manga publishing company!

man i really want to know the rules i have evrything done but i need to know the sizes. huh untill then i guess i’ll just work on my school work. boo. i hate high school.
Anyways good luck to everyone. =) ^3^

@christopher & hackwolfin. What Shaku said. Yen Press is giving us this amazing opportunity to showcase ourselves in front of their editor, least you could do is submit something on their terms. It’s not hard.

@yun-lang There is plenty of time, and last year they posted the rules a month later. HOWEVER, a mistake I did last year was to start without knowing the rules, it caused me to have to edit my story half way through and fix all my art… it wasted a lot of time and caused my story to be half-assed. My suggestion is to wait before you start, but take this time to get an idea in your head.

My only question, which was touched on in the rules of this year but worded a bit confusing like, it wants our name and title there, does this mean it’s own title page or with in the art pages itself?

Hey man, you sound smart, have you ever read naruto dbz bleach fma deathnote roroni kenshin soul eater bakuman and so many others???? right to left, and your american right??? there are right to left manga in yen press right? yea im right. did you know theres a whole section in book stores that have manga in it and about 90% of them read right to left and what do they have in it? oh yea english letters! im shere people in america can still read manga that goes right to left with english in it right, i do it evey day. so dont be smart with me.

and i am going to do it left to right because i follow rules i was just asking.

wow its nice that yenpress deleted my comment twards SHAKU even though there was no vulger language and i was just making a point! its nice to know you will let people be a dick to me but not let me have my say back. maybe you where saving his pride. pshhh idonno.